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John Talabot cancelled his performance at the festival for security reasons. Photo from Rémy DUGOUA on Flick under Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

The Corona Capital 2013 (#CC13) music festival that will take place in Mexico City on October 12 and 13 will have performances from post-BritPop musicians such as Travis, Stereophonics, Miles Kane, Jake Bugg and Arctic Monkeys, as well as acts more related to the Indie scene.

This year has not been lacking in controversy either, since one of the musicians who was going to perform at #CC13 announced the cancellation of his participation for security reasons. This performer is Spaniard John Talabot:

We are cancelling our tour in Mexico for security reasons. We are glad that our friends Delorean are well.

According to Verónica Chávez Aldaco [es], the reason for the cancellation is the kidnapping that the artist experienced along with his friends from Delorean in Mexico City after performing at the Mutek Festival:

It happened like this: after Mutek, delincuents pretending to be policemen came to their hotel to tell them that for security reasons they should change hotels. Then, already under their power, they were threatened and had their phones taken from them. It was then that the extortionists called their families in Spain to ask for ransom money.

The members of the band are safe, but this occurrence shows that the artistic and performing professions are not separate from the crisis of violence and insecurity that Mexico is going through. The user Alessia said this on the topic:

John Talabot has gone from being a somewhat unknown music producer to being one of the great revelations of electronica and an artist capable of captivating Ewan Pearson, being on the best of the year list from Pitchfork, collaborating with Delorean and being at the top of everything related to organic house. Following in the footsteps of Four Tet and crossing Northern soul with the sound of Chicago.

In spite of John Talabot's cancellation, many people have expressed their enthusiasm for the festival on Twitter, including those who still don't have a ticket, such as Daniela Gutiérrez: